Wire button.



Nq. 709,537. Patented Sept. 23, 1902'.

s. A. FOSTER.

WIRE BUTTON.

(Applicatioxi filed Apr. 9, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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SIDNEY A. FOSTER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WlRE BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,537, datedSeptember 23, 1902.

Application filed April 9, 1902. Serial No. 102,071. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, SIDNEY A. Fosrnaa citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne, State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Buttons; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention relates to buttons in general; and it has for its objectto provide a button formed of a single pieceof wire and which may beeasily and quickly attached to or removed from a fabric and which whenin place will serve the usual purposes of a button.

A further object of the invention is to provide a construction which isparticularly adapted for use as a Suspender-button.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be understood fromthe following description.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure 1 is a perspective view of the button. Fig. 2 is an elevationshowing the button attached to the upper portion of trousers in theplace of the ordinary suspender-button, a Suspender-end being shown engaged therewith. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the Wire in the processof formation of the button.

Referring now to the drawings, it will be seen that the present buttonconsists of a single piece of wire, which is preferably of spring metal.In the formation of the button the wire is first bent upon itself toform the spaced members 5 and 6 and the connecting bight 7, the membersbeing bent toward each other and then twisted together to form the loop8 and the adjacent twisted neck portion 9. Beyond the twisted neck 9 themembers 5 and 6 are bent at right angles, as shown at 10 and 11. Thenthe twisted neck portion is bent in an opposite direction, so that theloop 8 projects at the opposite side of the neck from the portions 10and 11 and in a plane parallel therewith. At the ends of the portions 10and 11 the members are bent laterally at right angles and are arched, asshown at 12 and 13, the arches springing in opposite directions andlying in a common plane, as shown.

Beyond the arches 12 and 13 from the loop of the button the members ofthe wire are bent backwardly, as shown at 14 and 15, parallel with theportions 12 and 13, after which they are bent downwardly at right anglesto extend divergently. The members are then bent upon themselves, theirextremities being passed through the loop 8, and then bent outwardly inopposite directions, as shown at 16 and 17.

In the application of the button to the trousers the ends of the members5 and 6 are passed through the fabric and are then passed upwardly onthe inner face thereof, the divergent portions of the members abovereferred to lying against the outer face of the fabric and the loop 8lying above and projecting over the upper edge of the fabric of thetrousers where it is engaged by the free ends of the members, theoutwardly-bent portions of which prevent accidental disengagement of themembers from the loop. In this position of the article the archedportions thereof lie spaced forwardly from the fabric of the trousers,so that a suspender tab or end may be engaged thereover, as shown in thedrawings.

It will be seen that the arches form what may be termed the head of thebutton,at one side of which is a loop and from the opposite side ofwhich extend the pins, which are bent upon themselves and returned belowthe head of the button for engagement with the loop.

What is claimed is- 1. A button and its attaching means comprising acentral head, aloop extending from one side of the head and pinsextending from the opposite side of the head,said pins being bent uponthemselves and returned beneath and behind the head for engagement withthe loop.

2. A button and its attaching means consisting of a single wireincluding a loop, arches beyond the loop and lying in a common plane atan angle to the plane of the loop and pins extending from the ends ofthe arches opposite to the loop, said pins being bent upon themselvesand returned beneath and behind the arches for engagement with the loop.

3. A button and its attaching means conbers between the loop and thearches being 10 sisting of a wire bent upon itself to form septwistedtogether.

arate members and aconnecting portion, the In testimony whereof I affixmy signature wire adjacent to the connecting portion bein presence oftwo witnesses. I ing bent to form a loop and the members be- 1 yond theloop being arched in opposite direc- DIDNEY F081 tions, and the membersbeyond the arches Witnesses:

being bent upon themselves and returned to N. S. WRIGHT,

the loop for engagement therewith, the mem- J. M. POLAND.

